Census-designated place · Douglas County, Nevada

Ruhenstroth, Nevada

Ruhenstroth is a census-designated place in Douglas County, Nevada, part of the Gardnerville Ranchos, NV-CA metro area. It has 1,682 residents. Ruhenstroth, Nevada has a quality-of-life score of 74 out of 100 (high), ranking #4,104 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Nevada it ranks #4 of 67 cities and towns. It ranks best on voter turnout (high), preventable hospital stays (low) and hospital quality rating (high). It ranks worst on pharmacies (low), home price to income ratio (high) and suicide rate (high).

74High

Quality-of-life score: #4,104 of 15,651 cities and towns
Nevada: #4 of 67 in NV
Population: 1,682 (2020-2024)
Land area: 3 mi²
Density: 593.8 /mi²
FIPS code: 3263450

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 75 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety72#4,369/15,637
Economy89#1,684/15,631
Housing12#13,196/14,977
Health71#4,456/15,609
Healthcare53#7,355/15,650
Environment93#1,049/15,453
Education44#8,839/15,649
Infrastructure84#2,447/15,650
Community44#8,779/15,651
Leisure & amenities78#3,497/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Ruhenstroth, Nevada ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Douglas County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Voter turnout · high86.4%
100/100Nevada 66.8%United States 65.2%2024U.S. Election Assistance CommissionDouglas County value
Preventable hospital stays · low1,283 /100k
98/100Nevada 2,768 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteDouglas County value
Hospital quality rating · high5.0
98/100Nevada 3.0United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesDouglas County value
Job growth · high4.8%
98/100Nevada 2.0%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataDouglas County value
Median Air Quality Index · low22
97/100Nevada 572025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyDouglas County value
Broadband subscriptions · high99.6%
97/100Nevada 92.0%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002

Weaknesses

Pharmacies · low0.6 /10k
5/100Nevada 1.5 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsDouglas County value
Home price to income ratio · high6.4×
9/100Nevada 5.6×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077
Suicide rate · high24.2 /100k
10/100Nevada 20.5 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataDouglas County value
Natural hazard risk · high89.2
11/100Nevada 34.92025Federal Emergency Management AgencyDouglas County value
Rent-burdened households · high47.9%
12/100Nevada 55.8%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070High uncertainty
Distance to an emergency room · high10.7 mi
14/100Nevada 4.9 miUnited States 5.5 miJul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesDouglas County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationRising
1,318 (2015-2019) → 1,682 (2020-2024)
+28%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Child poverty rateWorsening
0.0% (2015-2019) → 29.0% (2020-2024)
+29 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
21.9% (2015-2019) → 29.8% (2020-2024)
+7.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Median household incomeImproving
$76,563 (2015-2019) → $105,281 (2020-2024)
+38%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Poverty rateWorsening
6.9% (2015-2019) → 14.1% (2020-2024)
+7.2 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
92.5% (2015-2019) → 99.6% (2020-2024)
+7.1 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Ruhenstroth, Nevada improved on 1 of 9 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 8 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved1

Broadband+7.1 points92.5% → 99.6%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 9 measures

Change of every measure of Ruhenstroth, Nevada between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	25.0 min2015-2019	24.4 min2020-2024	−0.5 min	Within the margin of error	54%
Bachelor's degree or higher	21.9%2015-2019	29.8%2020-2024	+7.9 points	Within the margin of error	83%
Broadband subscriptions	92.5%2015-2019	99.6%2020-2024	+7.1 points	Improved	44%
Effective property tax rate	0.56%2015-2019	0.42%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	44%
High school diploma or higher	100.0%2015-2019	98.7%2020-2024	−1.3 points	Within the margin of error	20%
Home price to income ratio	6.1×2015-2019	6.4×2020-2024	+0.3×	Within the margin of error	61%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4172015-2019	0.4092020-2024	−0.008	Within the margin of error	58%
Median household income	$76,5632015-2019	$105,2812020-2024	+38%	Within the margin of error	70%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Ruhenstroth, Nevada five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Ruhenstroth, Nevada in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Ruhenstroth, Nevada itself moved +4.5 points in standing on average over the same 8 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

1,682 residents (±347)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

701 households (±143)

Ruhenstroth, Nevada
Nevada share

Under $25k16%†115
$25k–50k15%†102
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

701 households (±143)

Ruhenstroth, Nevada
Nevada share

Own93%653
Rent6.8%†48

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

720 workers (±204)

Ruhenstroth, Nevada
Nevada share

Drive alone77%†555
Carpool17%†121
Public transit

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Gardnerville Ranchos, NV-CA

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Douglas County, the county holding most of Ruhenstroth's residents.

Douglas County has 1,714 employer establishments, 347 for every 10,000 residents (1.40× the US rate of 248; 1.44× Nevada's), with 16,247 paid employees at an average annual pay of $52,104. The Census Bureau also counts 5,617 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 1,714; 5,617 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 347; US 248 · Nevada 241
Paid employees: 16,247
Average annual pay: $52,104; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Douglas County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Specialty trade contractors	153	31	2.00×More than typical	1,006	$64,084	252
Lessors of real estate	133	26.9	2.19×More than typical	348	$72,503	933
Restaurants and other eating places	100	20.2	1.10×About typical	1,488	$24,634	7
Ambulatory health care services	86	17.4	0.84×About typical	616	$78,633	232
Management, scientific and technical consulting	72	14.6	2.17×More than typical	215	$110,367	328
Construction of buildings	69	14	1.85×More than typical	290	$65,179	170
Services to buildings and dwellings	62	12.5	1.86×More than typical	564	$35,699	229
Real estate agents and brokers	57	11.5	2.37×More than typical	82	$64,793	289
Building equipment contractors	55	11.1	1.85×More than typical	314	$64,134	54
Full-service restaurants	44	8.9	1.16×About typical	693	$27,094	4
Computer systems design and related services	43	8.7	2.01×More than typical	101	$127,089	87
Limited-service restaurants	40	8.1	1.01×About typical	624	$23,128	—

Rank places for an industry Open Douglas County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 49,407 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $11.3K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Ruhenstroth, Nevada: $6.74 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $11.3K; +1,026% vs FY2025
Per resident: $6.74; US $1,994
Sole-source: 38%; US 30%
Single offer: 4.7%; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service$11.3K100%

Top recipients

IRONWOOD COMMERCIAL BUILDERS INC$5,51149%
WEST COAST DIRT WORKS LLC$4,53640%
MOORE-CLARK U.S.A., INC.$6906.1%
AMERICAN CHILLER SERVICE, INC.$2572.3%
BRATSLAVSKY CONSULTING ENGINEERS, INC.$1791.6%
TOTAL ENVIRONMENTAL & POWER SYSTEMS, INC.$1701.5%

Spending by fiscal year

5.6KFY2017
22.2KFY2018
46.4KFY2019
28KFY2020
31KFY2021
6.7KFY2022
8.2KFY2023
6KFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Nonresidential building construction · 2362$5,51149%
Utility system construction · 2371$3,13128%
Building equipment contractors · 2382$9878.7%
Commercial and industrial machinery and equipment repair and maintenance · 8113$7846.9%
Animal food manufacturing · 3111$6906.1%
Architectural, engineering, and related services · 5413

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Ruhenstroth, Nevada, so they do not add up across cities.

Ruhenstroth, Nevada's figures are part of those of Douglas County, NV ($17.3M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.1% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Ruhenstroth is mostly in Douglas County.

See federal money in Douglas County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Ruhenstroth, Nevada is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Mark E. AmodeiR-NV-2 · 100% of residentsWith party 97%Missed 2.8%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Douglas County81100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Gardnerville Ranchos, NV-CA89

Other cities and towns in Douglas County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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